Sentences with phrase «deliberate attempt»

And it is precisely because of deliberate attempts to muddy public opinion, and consumer choices, that there has been so little innovation and adoption.

Certain behaviors require an immediate response — for example, if you witness toxic behaviors such as bullying or deliberate attempts at deception.

Evidence can often be recovered from such devices despite deliberate attempts to hide, delete or otherwise alter it.

Only God knows, for some time there seems to be deliberate attempts by certain elements to harass and intimidate President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan without any justification simply because he does not belong to a certain part of this country where the people believe it is their absolute right to rule because they are in the majority without having regard to the fact that the world is changing fast.

In what could be described as deliberate attempts to frustrate the Chief Justice's effort at cleaning the judiciary of miscreants; plaintiffs, complainants and attorneys are fuming over what they see as clever moves by court clerks and registrars to extort monies from them.

As she puts it, in «Stop and smell the roses: «Savouring» in a busy, multi-tasking, self - improving world,» «savouring requires one to become fully aware of positive feelings, appreciate them and make deliberate attempts to prolong the enjoyment.»

However, there is a conscious and deliberate attempt on the part of Dalit theologians to re-read the Bible from the perspective of the experience of the victims.

Therefore, COSYNE can be seen as a conference where the ratio of women speakers has consistently surpassed the base rate, through deliberate attempts to correct for implicit gender biases.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday issued a statement saying the U.S. government «in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.»

The problem is so bad that even deliberate attempts to foster reasonable discussion can end in ad hominem attack or sanctimonious dismissal.

LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

The Cambridge historian, H. Butterfield, has said of the Old Testament «Altogether we have here the greatest and most deliberate attempts ever made to wrestle with destiny and interpret history and discover meaning in the human drama; above all to grapple with the moral difficulties that history presents to the religious mind.»

If the producers are denying deliberate attempt to portray Obama as the Devil, that's fine.

Whilst I agree that some of what you have reported are clearly deliberate attempts to mislead customers and misrepresent certain Chateaux» hard earned reputations, I also hope that you will report how positive a Chinese wine fair of this size really is for the trade.

Dourado admits the calculation is «very rough» and doesn't take into account deliberate attempts or larger drones.

Short of back - to - back treks over identical routes, or maybe deliberate attempts to break something underneath, we can't legitimately say.

Amazon's rumored 8.9 - inch Kindle Fire has been given a narrower release window and possible deliberate attempt to compete outside of Apple's space through a new claim early Monday.

What underscores the apparent deliberate attempt to mislead is that the media and most of the public believed the scenarios were predictions.

The malicious use of automation, impersonation, and other deliberate attempts to deceive are prohibited under the Twitter Rules.»

At one end there is a conscious and strategic, either covert or overt deliberate attempt to turn the child against the other parent.

«In her recent debates, Nicola Sturgeon repeatedly brought up Thatcher and the Poll Tax, all of which was a very deliberate attempt to push buttons deep within the Scottish psyche about their fears of a future right - wing Tory government.»

Although compassion and honesty can be increased through therapy, this treatment is generally not indicated for those who may make deliberate attempts to deceive or manipulate the therapist.

The problem is so bad that even deliberate attempts to foster reasonable discussion can end in

In other words, they argue that you can only call a statement a lie if you know for a fact that the person who said it knew it was false — and that they did so in a deliberate attempt to deceive or mislead their audience.

Devaluation means a deliberate attempt by a government or central bank to lower the value of its currency in foreign - exchange markets.

But IT security firm Kapersky and others raise a troubling notion: this was never really ransomware at all, but rather a deliberate attempt to sow chaos and confusion.

This runs counter to the government's deliberate attempt to contain housing activity.

If an unofficial page exists for your company (either a fan page or a deliberate attempt to impersonate your business), verification adds much - needed credibility to your page.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan «a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system,» pledging to send more immigration judges to the border to resolve cases if needed.

The Milwaukee Social Democratic Herald, for example, decried syndicated fake news stories as «deliberate attempts to discredit the administration» of Milwaukee's democratically elected Socialist mayor, Emil Seidel.

These actions include the deliberate attempt to hold down interest rates to below inflation.

The media literacy campaign comes as deliberate attempts to disseminate false or misleading stories have seeped not only into the political and diplomatic landscape in Kenya but also into the news cycle and the corporate world.

The Canadian housing market is also still recoiling from regulatory changes Mr. Flaherty imposed in recent years in a deliberate attempt to engineer a «soft landing» for overpriced residential real estate.

«We are deeply concerned about all deliberate attempts to offend members of any religious or ethnic group,» said Stephen Engelken, the second - ranking diplomat at the embassy.

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

So Decius started a most systematic, planned and deliberate attempt to stamp out the Church.

It may be already be upon us through this deliberate attempt through propaganda to feed so much mass mis - information to the masses, who do not care so long as they can have at the least adequate food, clothing, shelter and toys.

«There is definitely a deliberate attempt to undermine the importance of Christmas,» Roger Gaikwad, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in India, told WWM.

And your silly statement that there was little threat by Islamic extremism prior to the first gulf war represents either a profound ignorance of history or a deliberate attempt to deceive.